Stages of madness[electronic resource] :sin, sickness and Seneca in Shakespearean drama

• 作者: Power, Andrew J.,
• 出版: Oxford :New York : Peter Lang 2023.
• 稽核項: xiv, 162 p. :digital ;23 cm.
• 標題: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Stage history. , CharactersMentally ill. , Mental illness England -- History -- 17th century. , Mentally ill in literature. , Mental illness England -- History -- 16th century. , Mental illness , Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Characters -- Mentally ill. , Shakespeare, William, , Mental illness in literature. , Stage history. , History
• ISBN: 3034308299 , 9783034308298
• ISBN: 9781803740775
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• 附註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 摘要: "In re-evaluating the contemporary staging of madness in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries this book provides a clearer understanding and interpretation of characters who suffer from mental and emotional extremities in Shakespearean drama. It addresses three factors that contribute to early modern concepts of madness. These are theories of the 'self' current and emergent in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries; contemporary medical writings on madness; and the legacy of portrayals of madness from classical Greek and Roman drama, with a particular focus on the Roman tragedian, Seneca. The more complete understanding that this combined approach provides facilitates a better-informed reading of Shakespeare's plays, plays that so often deal with mental and emotional extremities that were once thought of as 'madness'. Hamlet, Ophelia, Lady Macbeth, King Lear, Edgar, Othello, even Antipholous and Malvolio, are all characters for whom this work provides a better understanding"--
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• 系統號: 005338450
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